Leeds Crown Court Sentencing Results

Luke Kenny stabbed his girlfriend in the head with a knife at her home in Shelley, Huddersfield on August 18, 2016, causing three injuries including a one-inch wound to her head that required five stitches, a small cut on her neck, and one to her right earlobe. The incident occurred amid relationship problems over money, and he later apologised. She initially refused treatment but disclosed the attack to paramedics.

Raphael Hunte took his father's car without permission and led police on a high-speed chase through residential areas in Huddersfield, reaching speeds up to 70mph in Deighton, Bradley, Fartown, and Brackenhall. The pursuit ended when he lost control and crashed into two parked cars on Sherwood Avenue. He was arrested with the help of a police helicopter's infra-red camera. This incident occurred on November 12, early hours, as he panicked while driving without insurance and on licence.

Trevor Fox, 57, of Coppice Drive, Netherton, purchased a BB gun on March 12, 2016, intending to harm himself due to depression. After drinking alcohol for Dutch courage, he pointed the gun at a man in the Albert public house in Huddersfield following a derogatory comment. He was challenged, left the pub, and later mentioned the gun to his brother at the Conservative Club in Netherton, who took and broke it. Fox was arrested and admitted to the offense.

Lisa Marie Maguire assisted undercover police officers to purchase crack cocaine and heroin from street dealers in Kirklees on November 11, 2013, believing the officers to be fellow drug users as part of Operation Oakwood. At the time, she was involved in the sex industry to fund her drug addiction and was heavily using drugs herself. She failed to appear for sentencing in 2014 and remained on the run until her arrest in July 2016.

Martin Bell fatally attacked Gemma Simpson at his Harrogate flat on May 5, 2000. He repeatedly struck her with a hammer during an argument, which he claimed involved a perceived threat to his children. He then stabbed her, drowned her in a bath by filling it with water and tying her hands, dismembered her body after several days, and buried it. Gemma was reported as a missing person for 14 years until Bell confessed at Scarborough Police Station.

Lee Tansey and his accomplices committed three armed robberies in 2009, targeting a bank in Darwen, Lancashire, stealing £43,000; a security van in Elland, near Halifax, stealing £175,000; and a HSBC bank in Huddersfield, stealing £300,000. They used weapons like a machete, crowbar, and sledgehammer, and engaged in a high-speed chase with police, driving dangerously across the Pennines before abandoning the vehicle in Manchester.

Gary Ford was wrongly convicted and jailed for 25 years in 1996 for a string of burglaries and robberies, based on evidence provided by supergrass Karl Chapman. The conviction was later quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2009 after revelations of gross prosecutorial misconduct involving improper favors to Chapman to secure his testimony.

Karl Chapman, a criminal arrested in 1994, acted as a supergrass for West Yorkshire Police, providing key evidence in cases such as the 1996 murder of Joe Smales in Wakefield. In exchange for his cooperation, he received various improper favors from police, leading to his conviction being quashed in related cases, but he himself was sentenced to 9 years.